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Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event
of Armed Conflict. The Hague, 14 May 1954.
STATES PARTIES SIGNATURE RATIFICATION /
ACCESSION RESERVATION /DECLARATION
Albania 20.12.1960
Angola 07.02.2012
Argentina 22.03.1989
Armenia 05.09.1993
Australia 14.05.1954 19.09.1984
Austria 31.12.1954 25.03.1964
Azerbaijan 20.09.1993
Bahrain 26.08.2008
Bangladesh 23.06.2006
Barbados 09.04.2002
Belarus 30.12.1954 07.05.1957 30.12.1954 Belgium 14.05.1954 16.09.1960
Benin 17.04.2012
Bolivia 17.11.2004
Bosnia-Herzegovina 12.07.1993
Botswana 03.01.2002
Brazil 31.12.1954 12.09.1958
Bulgaria 07.08.1956
Burkina Faso 18.12.1969
Cambodia 17.12.1954 04.04.1962
Cameroon 12.10.1961
Canada 11.12.1998
Chad 17.06.2008
Chile 11.09.2008
China 14.05.1954 05.01.2000
Colombia 18.06.1998
Congo (Dem. Rep.) 18.04.1961
Costa Rica 03.06.1998
Côte d'Ivoire 24.01.1980
Croatia 06.07.1992
Cuba 14.05.1954 26.11.1957
Cyprus 09.09.1964
Czech Republic 26.03.1993
Denmark 18.10.1954 26.03.2003
Dominican Republic 05.01.1960
Ecuador 14.05.1954 02.10.1956
Egypt 30.12.1954 17.08.1955
El Salvador 14.05.1954 19.07.2001
Equatorial Guinea 19.11.2003
Eritrea 06.08.2004
Estonia 04.04.1995
Finland 16.09.1994
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 30.04.1997
France 14.05.1954 07.06.1957
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France 14.05.1954 07.06.1957
Gabon 04.12.1961
Georgia 04.11.1992
Germany 14.05.1954 11.08.1967 14.05.1954
Ghana 25.07.1960
Greece 14.05.1954 09.02.1981
Guatemala 02.10.1985
Guinea 20.09.1960
Holy See 24.02.1958
Honduras 25.10.2002
Hungary 14.05.1954 17.05.1956
India 14.05.1954 16.06.1958
Indonesia 24.12.1954 10.01.1967
Iran (Islamic Rep.of) 14.05.1954 22.06.1959
Iraq 14.05.1954 21.12.1967
Israel 14.05.1954 03.10.1957
Italy 14.05.1954 09.05.1958
Japan 06.09.1954 10.09.2007
Jordan 22.12.1954 02.10.1957
Kazakhstan 14.03.1997
Kuwait 06.06.1969
Kyrgyzstan 03.07.1995
Latvia 19.12.2003
Lebanon 25.05.1954 01.06.1960
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 14.05.1954 19.11.1957
Liechtenstein 28.04.1960
Lithuania 27.07.1998
Luxembourg 14.05.1954 29.09.1961
Madagascar 03.11.1961
Malaysia 12.12.1960
Mali 18.05.1961
Mauritius 22.09.2006
Mexico 29.12.1954 07.05.1956
Moldova (Republic of) 09.12.1999
Monaco 14.05.1954 10.12.1957
Mongolia 04.11.1964
Montenegro (Republic of) 26.04.2007
Morocco 30.08.1968
Myanmar 31.12.1954 10.02.1956
Netherlands 14.05.1954 14.10.1958
New Zealand 20.12.1954 24.07.2008
Nicaragua 14.05.1954 25.11.1959
Niger 06.12.1976
Nigeria 05.06.1961
Norway 14.05.1954 19.09.1961 14.05.1954
Oman 26.10.1977
Pakistan 27.03.1959
Panama 17.07.1962
Paraguay 09.11.2004
Peru 21.07.1989
Poland 14.05.1954 06.08.1956
Portugal 14.05.1954 04.08.2000
Qatar 31.07.1973
Romania 14.05.1954 21.03.1958
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Russian Federation 14.05.1954 04.01.1957
Rwanda 28.12.2000
San Marino 14.05.1954 09.02.1956
Saudi Arabia 20.01.1971
Senegal 17.06.1987
Serbia (Republic of) 11.09.2001
Seychelles 08.10.2003
Slovakia 31.03.1993
Slovenia 28.10.1992
South Africa 18.12.2003
Spain 14.05.1954 07.07.1960
Sri Lanka 11.05.2004
Sudan 23.07.1970 23.07.1970
Sweden 22.01.1985
Switzerland 15.05.1962
Syrian Arab Republic 14.05.1954 06.03.1958
Tajikistan 28.08.1992
Tanzania (United Rep.of) 23.09.1971
Thailand 02.05.1958
Tunisia 28.01.1981
Turkey 15.12.1965
Ukraine 14.05.1954 06.02.1957
United States of America 14.05.1954 13.03.2009
Uruguay 14.05.1954 24.09.1999
Uzbekistan 21.02.1996
Venezuela 09.05.2005
Yemen 06.02.1970
Zimbabwe 09.06.1998
1) Ratification : a treaty is generally open for signature for a certain time following the conference which has adopted it. However, a signature is not binding on a State unless it has been endorsed by ratification. The time limits having elapsed, the Conventions and the Protocols are no longer open for signature. The States which have not signed them may at any time accede or, in the appropriate circumstances, succeed to them.
Accession : instead of signing and then ratifying a treaty, a State may become party to it by the single act called accession.
2) Reservation / Declaration : unilateral statement, however phrased or named, made by a State when ratifying, acceding or succeeding to a treaty, whereby it purports to exclude or to modify the legal effect of certain provisions of the treaty in their application to that State (provided that such reservations are not incompatible with the object and purpose of the treaty).
